As the OP said in post #4 the rifle sat in a barn for awhile and was refurbished at one point. Well in my young and dumber days I was living with my in-laws for a brief time. I found a old Remington single shot rifle in the basement all rusted up. The story was that this rifle was lost by father in-law as a kid. It turned up a year or two later after a tractor ran it over and bent the barrel. The barrel was cut down to around 14" and basically put away. I asked him if I could clean it up and he said yes. I took the barreled action to a wire wheel on a bench grinder and polished off all the rust and bluing until it was in the white and I am sure I removed any markings in the process partly because of rust. I then took a belt sander to the stock to clean it up. I oiled everything up good and went out to shoot it and it shot fantastic. We had a conversation about the legality of the cut down barrel. Soon after the rifle disappeared? I guess the story is that there are allot of farmers rural folk who are not gun people but have guns for dispatching varmints or used for butchering that are around the farm and not kept in the best of environment's. Then you get someone like me with little experience and uses what tools are available to clean up something found in the barn so to speak. This is what happened to this rifle and the only way to identify it is by our collective knowledge.
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